Ramnath Dhakal (, 20 December 1962 – 5 April 2015) was a

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ese politician, belonging to the

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. In the

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he was elected from the

Rupandehi Rupandehi District (; ), a part of Lumbini Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and covers an area of . The district headquarter is Bhairahawa. As per the national census 2011, the population of Rupandehi was 880,196. Etymol ...

-5 constituency, winning 11,080 votes. On 5 April 2015, Dhakal died of

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and other diseases at the Grande International Hospital in

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Ramnath Dhakal Full Biography
2015 deaths 1962 births Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians Nepal MPs 1994–1999 {{Lumbini-politician-stub Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly